In the state of Washington in 2005, a man died of a perforated colon after having sexual relations with a horse. Robinson Devor’s impressionistic reconstruction of the events surrounding that incident is profoundly compassionate yet oddly frustrating. Using audio interviews with members of the zoophile community who gathered there due to the state’s lack, at the time, of laws against bestiality, Devor and the co-writer, Charles Mudede, restage with actors (as well as an acquaintance of the deceased who was willing to appear on camera) things as they seemed to the participants, not a full view of things as they were. The vague and tendentious method parses the story in terms of pleasure-seekers victimized by the forces of repression, yet when one zoophile equates his love for horses to other men’s love for their wives and children, questions of morality and perspective arise which Devor scrupulously avoids. He conveys his awe of the mystery and the tyranny of desire, but in his empathetic effort to normalize it, he flattens and sentimentalizes the story.

"I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damned human race, including myself. I preyed upon the weak, the harmless and the unsuspecting. This lesson I was taught by others : Might makes right."